here's cnn's becker anderson. >> reporter: i'm becky anderson in london, my home city, and when i want to eat like a local, i come here. >> peter lanagan was quite a character. >> a famous restauranteur. he called a few friends of his to invest some minand michael cain was one of them and one of his other friends was david hawkney so you had a wonderful start. >> reporter: i also know there's a right royal story to this restaurant. >> with princess margot rhett. peter langan was crawling under the table and nibbling her. >> a right royal nibble. >> reporter: pretending he was what? >> pretending he was a dog. >> oh, very nice. >> reporter: this is the sort of the thing you get on the coast in britain on a wet afternoon. yours. >> it's the first dish that peter langan put on the menu. >> reporter: why did he want to put a spinach souffle on the menu on what is this quintessentially british restaurant? >> he hated chaps. he wanted to be really difficult. >> reporter: doesn't get much more basic than this, fish and chips and sausage. how do you make this 2012 sort of nouveau cuisine? >> i